Sunday, January 17, 2016

AVENUE OF MYSTERIES by John Irving *

Most novels require you to be lured into the story HARDCORE, if the author is unable to do this and just tells without showing I'm not going to be drawn in and don't GAS about the story.

I only got 14 pages into this and quit. Why? Pages and pages of nonsense about what Juan Diego calls himself from the past to the present-not kidding and why. Then there are umpteen paragraphs about "dump kids" from his past. There is a passage about what a shrug means...total arrogance of the writer to bring me here cuz I'm done.

Boring. Go to sleep reading something more interesting. Even if you're not tired this one will put you down or make you toss it across the room. Really not a fan.

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